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Lexicon :: Strong's H5768 - ʿôlēl

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עוֹלֵל
Transliteration
ʿôlēl
Pronunciation
o-lale'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1579c

Strong’s Definitions

עוֹלֵל ʻôwlêl, o-lale'; or עֹלָל ʻôlâl; from H5763; a suckling:—babe, (young) child, infant, little one.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's H5768 in the following manner: children (13x), infant (3x), babes (2x), child (1x), little ones (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's H5768 in the following manner: children (13x), infant (3x), babes (2x), child (1x), little ones (1x).
  1. child, boy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עוֹלֵל ʻôwlêl, o-lale'; or עֹלָל ʻôlâl; from H5763; a suckling:—babe, (young) child, infant, little one.
STRONGS H5768: Abbreviations
עוֺלֵל, עוֺלָל noun masculineLamentations 2:19 child; — absolute עוֺלֵל 1 Samuel 15:3 +, עוֺלָל Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20; usually plural עוֺלְלִים Psalm 8:3, עֹלְלִים Job 3:16, עוֺלָלִים Lamentations 4:4; Joel 2:16; construct עֹלְלֵי Lamentations 2:20; suffix עֹלָלַיִךְ Psalm 137:9, עֹלָלֶיהָ Micah 2:9 +, עֹלְלֵיהֶם 2 Kings 8:2 +, etc.; — child Micah 2:9; Lamentations 2:19, 20; Lamentations 4:4; + יוֺנֵק (sometimes distinguished from men and women), 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 22:19; Psalm 8:3; Jeremiah 44:7; Lamentations 2:11; Joel 2:16, || בַּחוּרִים Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20; || בָּנִים Psalm 17:14 (heirs of father); dashed in pieces (רטשׁ) by foe 2 Kings 8:12; Hosea 14:1; Nahum 3:10; Isaiah 13:16, compare Psalm 137:9 (נִפֵּץ); taken captive Lamentations 1:5; stillborn Job 3:16.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

15:3; 15:3; 22:19

2 Kings

8:2; 8:12

Job

3:16; 3:16

Psalms

8:3; 8:3; 17:14; 137:9; 137:9

Isaiah

13:16

Jeremiah

6:11; 6:11; 9:20; 9:20; 44:7

Lamentations

1:5; 2:11; 2:19; 2:19; 2:20; 2:20; 4:4; 4:4

Hosea

14:1

Joel

2:16; 2:16

Micah

2:9; 2:9

Nahum

3:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5768 matches the Hebrew עוֹלֵל (ʿôlēl),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, infant H5768 and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - So he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants H5768 and nursing babies; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants H5768 you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 -

“Or why was I not like a miscarriage hidden away,

As infants H5768 that never saw light?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 -

From the mouth of infants H5768 and nursing babies You have established [fn]strength

Because of Your adversaries,

To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 -

From men with Your hand, O Yahweh,

From men [fn]of the world, whose portion is in this life,

And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;

They are satisfied with children,

And leave their excess to their infants H5768.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 -

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants H5768

Against the cliff.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:16 -

Their infants H5768 also will be dashed to pieces

Before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives ravished.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 -

But I am full of the wrath of Yahweh;

I am weary of holding it in.

“Pour it out on the infants H5768 in the street

And on the [fn]gathering of choice men together;

For both husband and wife shall be captured,

The aged with the one full of days.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 -

For death has come up through our windows;

It has entered our palaces

To cut off the infants H5768 from the streets,

The choice men from the open squares.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - ‘So now, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you doing great evil against yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, infant H5768 and nursing baby, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 -

He

Her adversaries have become [fn]her masters;

Her enemies are complacent;

For [fn]Yahweh has caused her grief

Because of the greatness of her transgressions;

Her infants H5768 have gone away

As captives before the adversary.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 -

Kaph

My eyes fail because of tears;

My [fn]inmost being is greatly disturbed;

My [fn]heart is poured out on the earth

Because of the [fn]destruction of the daughter of my people,

When infants H5768 and nursing babies faint

In the open squares of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 -

Qoph

“Arise, cry aloud in the night

At the head of the night watches;

Pour out your heart like water

Before the presence of the Lord;

Lift up your hands to Him

For the life of your infants H5768

Who are faint because of hunger

At the head of every street.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 -

Resh

See, O Yahweh, and look!

With whom have You dealt thus?

Should women eat their [fn]offspring,

The infants H5768 who were [fn]born healthy?

Should priest and prophet be killed

In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 -

Daleth

The tongue of the nursing baby cleaves

To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;

The infants H5768 ask for bread,

But no one breaks it for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:16 -

[fn]Samaria will be held guilty,

For she has rebelled against her God.

They will fall by the sword;

Their infants H5768 will be dashed in pieces,

And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 -

Gather the people, set apart the congregation as holy,

Assemble the elders,

Gather the infants H5768 and the nursing babies.

Let the bridegroom come out of his room

And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:9 -

“The women of My people you drive out,

Each one from her pleasant house.

From her infants H5768 you take My splendor forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:10 -

Yet she became an exile;

She went into captivity;

Also her infants H5768 were dashed to pieces

At the head of every street;

They cast lots for her honorable men,

And all her great men were bound with fetters.

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